Jewish Experiences in World Literature and Cinema

5 credits

Explores the diversity of Jewish experiences through the study of literature, film, and graphic novels from around the world. Covers issues of tradition and secularization, diasporas and homelands; questions of cultural, racial, and sexual identities; effects of enormous changes wrought by displacements, world wars, the Holocaust, and other rapid cultural transformations. Course overlaps with: MELC 317/JEW ST 318. Offered: jointly with JEW ST 302.